Carissa’s Wierd ::: photo by Josh Lovseth

Sometimes you get what you wish, I don’t have to remember here, you’re really close this time.

Last July after a chatty one-off reunion show at The Showbox, the largest show Carissa’s Wierd had ever played, fans old & new alike wondered aloud … would there be more? Would the final song the band performed, a yet named new song, mean more from the band than the Hardly Art re-issues and retrospective?

The answer for now is at least a tentative yes with a 7” due out September 13th, the band’s first new material in seven years. (You can pre-order it now from Hardly Art. ) “Tucson” (that yet named song debuted at the Showbox) and the previously unheard “Meredith & Iris,” are as lyrically bleak and as beautiful a whisper as any songs Carissa’s Wierd have ever written.

Carissa’s Wierd - Meredith & Iris by hardlyartrecords

So we’ll never go back. Do you wish they remembered still? It could happen again.

To celebrate the release, the band will be playing Neumos on September 24th. Considering they nearly sold out the Showbox last July, you should probably buy your tickets sooner than later. There’s no word if this 7” and second show is the start of something more for Carissa’s Wierd and Hardly Art is keeping it coy, “It is too soon to say whether or not Carissa’s Wierd is “back,” but for the time being, we can certainly say that they are here.” And just to be here now with Carissa’s Wierd, even if it’s just one more time and two new songs, is pretty special.

So just to be there now, one more time with you.